Grills Gone Wild

I am proud to announce another Grill to the fleet! I have purchased a Weber Gold Charcoal Grill. I broke it in last Sunday with some Cedar Planked Salmon Steaks. I also grilled my first bread on it and the taste was great! Both kid's exact words for the bread was "Awesome"!

This evening I will be grilling some T-Bone Steaks, some more bread, shrimp skewers, and some asapragus.

Now, I know most of you out there are great cooks and grillers. I also know some of you (friends & family) own some mighty big and impressive grilling rigs. I'm not competing with you or saying I'm better......I'm just proud of what I have and happy I can cook on it and everybody likes it!!! And to everyone who sent me information on new gas grills, THANK YOU! I have not made any purchases yet, but the Weber Genesis and Holland gas grills got high reguards from you! I did clean and refurbish my current SunBeam GrillMaster grill. Two new wheels and hubcaps, new grease catcher cup & holder, replaced chipped and broken grill rocks, and I removed and scrubbed the grill grates and cleaned the inside and outside good. Bought a new cast iron skillet to grill on, a new cast iron smoker box, a cast iron griddle, and several new accessories for the new Weber and old SunBeam grills. A corner of the garage now looks like a grill store.

From the garden front - I'm getting a few tomatoes from the Tomato patch, but the quantity is not what I would have liked. The bottom leaves and branches are dieing off. They look like shrubs right now. If not for the cages, they would be on the ground. I have several green tomatoes on top at the moment. I am feeding and watering, so I'm not sure of what is going on. Not to mention the birds pecking at the ones that are "just about" ripe. Time for some pie-pan scare-crows!

My Dixon lawnmower has served me faithfully for the last 15 years with only regular maintenance needed. It finally broke on me. The right hand side of the drive transmission locked up. I took it to the local authorized Dixon shop and they rebuilt the cone-drive transmission. Runs great and I should have several more years of service out of it. I did find out that Dixon was bought out by Husqvarna and they closed the Coffeeville, Kansas factory. I was told everything was moved to one of Husqvarna's factories in North Carolina.

May your garden be green and your grill be hot.........till next update....